Ben Rivers
Director · Writer · ProducerA London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.
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Mare's Nest
2026
Director
Bogancloch
2025
Director
After Work
2022
Director
Ijen / London
2022
Director
The Minotaur
2022
Director
The House Was Quiet
2020
Director
Krabi, 2562
2019
Director
Ghost Strata
2019
Director
10 Min
2019
Director
Look Then Below
2019
Director
Slow Action
2018
Director
Dreaming In The Dark
2018
Director
The Rare Event
2018
Director
Trees Down Here
2018
Director
Now, at Last!
2018
Director
The Ambassadors
2018
Director
The Hunchback
2016
Director
Urth
2016
Director
The Shape of Things
2016
Director
Mohammed Mrabet
2015
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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
2015
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A Distant Episode
2015
Director
What Means Something
2015
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There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
2015
Director
Things
2014
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The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
Director
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
2013
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Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
2013
Director
Two Years at Sea
2012
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- The Creation as We Saw It
The Creation as We Saw It
2012
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Phantoms of a Libertine
2012
Director
More Than Just A Dram
2012
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- Sack Barrow
Sack Barrow
2011
Director
- Experiments in Terror 3
Experiments in Terror 3
2009
Director
I Know Where I'm Going
2009
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- May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last
May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last
2009
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Alice
2009
Director
Ah, Liberty!
2008
Director
- Origin of the Species
Origin of the Species
2008
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- A World Rattled of Habit
A World Rattled of Habit
2008
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- Sørdal
Sørdal
2008
Director
This Is My Land
2007
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House
2007
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- Terror
Terror
2007
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- The Coming Race
The Coming Race
2006
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Astika
2006
Director
The Hyrcynium Wood
2005
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The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe
2005
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Jack
2005
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- We the People
We the People
2004
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- Old Dark House
Old Dark House
2003
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The Big Sink
1993
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The Wind, One Brilliant Day
Director
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Mare's Nest
2026
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Bogancloch
2025
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The Invisible Mountain
2021
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Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019
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Krabi, 2562
2019
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Ghost Strata
2019
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Trees Down Here
2018
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I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
2018
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Slow Action
2018
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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
2015
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A Distant Episode
2015
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- This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men
This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men
2014
Director of Photography
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
2013
Director of Photography
The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe
2005
Director of Photography
The Big Sink
1993
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